Resolution from the Conference on People's Sovereignty on Natural Resources
23-25 October 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand

As social justice activists from over 50 organizations across 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific we know from our own experience that governments manipulate the label ‘terrorism' to suppress national movements for social justice and self-determination. We

Express solidarity with the people of Tuhoe and other communities in Aotearoa that are being terrorized by the New Zealand state in the name of ‘anti-terrorism';

Denounce the labeling of Maori sovereignty activists as ‘terrorists', and the New Zealand government's refusal to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as the actions of an illegitimate colonial power;

Condemn the New Zealand government's use of the Terrorism Suppression law to justify blockades, searches, arrests and detention without any attempt to show due cause;

Call for the immediate release on bail of those who have been arrested and an end to the current abuses of police powers of search, seizure, arrest and detention;

Resolve to campaign against the New Zealand government's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council.